Wire fence



2 Sheets-Sheet 1 WIRE FENCE INVENTEB.

W. H. SOMMER Filed July 29 Jan. 3o, 1940.

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Jan. 30, 1940. w. H. SOMMER WIRE FENCE Filed July 29, 1958 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 IN 'sz-EN'. 'rma Patented Jan'. 30, 1940.

UNITEDSTATES PATENT oFFlcE n 7 Claims.

This invention has reference to improvements in wire fencing and particularly to that type which factory made and intended for farm, iield andi kindred uses.

wires, aplurality of intermediate-line Wires, and stay wires, eachcomprising a single piece of wire connected with the opposite marginal or selvage wiresand with each ofthe intermediate Wires. v 'Iiheinventionhas for its primary object to produce a wire fence ini which, by employing gaugesiof `Wire comparable to that in likeE height and spacing of fence, less Wire will be used and yet the fencev so produced will be as strong, if not stronger, as fences now or heretofore made.

Inf accomplishing `the economical use of Wire, while retaining strength in the fence, I provide continuous one piece stay wires, the upper and lower terminal ends of whichare preferably coiledor loopedonce around the marginal or selvagewires, the latter being provided lwith crimps, atspaced intervals for seating the coiled or loopedvends of the stay wires, such'crimps in thel opposite marginal or selvage` wires being disposedy oppositely to anddirected towards each other and the body ofthe fence wherebyasaving in .the stay wires is made to the extent of the depth of lthe crimps inf said,` marginal or selvage wires.- Suchf crimpsare individual crimpsto re' ceive an end of a single stay wire andthey diverge outwardly from adjacent-the stay wire'on opposite sidesthereof,I where they form a seat, to the body oi the marginal wire intowhich such divergent portions merge. The bodies of the stay F lwires where they intersect the intermediateline wires, being twisted and combinedl therewith in oir-set tension curves 'thereby obviating the use ofandA saving the wire required to produce the 'tension curve'heretofore formed in the respective intermediate line wires, between thel stays.

` It isa fur-ther objectof the invention to iiatten the inner faces of the apex portion of thecrimps in thefmarginal orsalvage wires, at the'fpoint where the terminal ends of'thefstay wires engage the same, S0 as to prevent the marginal Vwires leaving their. position or turning on their axis.

TheV` invention further contemplates, in one form, the crimping of the bodies of the Staywires adjacent their coiled or loopedfends at the mar-y atuthe .juncture of the crimpsV thus effecting a' f lstrong 'and' secure connection and increasingthe Furthermore, the fence comprises top and bottom marginal or selvage load required to pull the stay wires off the -marginal or selvage wires. f y

l Itis fur-ther contemplated, linthe connection ofY the terminal ends of the stay wiresv Withthe marginal or selvage wires in another form', to weld such free ends ofthe-'stay wires to their own bodies.` The purposein each instance, aside from givingv strength to the fence, is., to avoid-fandobviate any free. or looseendsin the stay- Wires where the fencingis used iny territories where wool, is produced. Welding lends itself to fences made fro'mlowcarbon' Wire land when highcarbon-Y wire is used then the-other means of attachment may ybeused, although this isoptional. with the maker.

That the invention mayl be: more fullyunderstood referenceis had to the accompanyingxdrawfings, illustrating preferred. embodiments of the invention, in whichf Fig. 1` shows a section! or panel'ot my improved fence where the free ends of the stay wiresare coiledAk about their bodies; y Fig. 2 isla view similar to Fig. l except-that the free ends ofi the stay wires are welded to their bodies;

upper and-lower ends of'a stay wire andlits connection with the marginal or selvage Wires and with its own` body, at points 3--3Y andv 4 4k re-f,

selvage wire and its own body asA the same would appear at-points8-8 Fig. 2; l

Fig. 9 is anend View of'Fig. 8, and Fig. 10 is an enlarged detail view, in section, showirgthe ilat face ofa crimp' in am'arginaflior sclvage wire and how the looped orcoiledp'o'rtion ofL the end ofI a stay wire is interlocked therewith when bent over` or about such marginalor salvage Wire.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding kparts throughout the lgures. l

lThey fence, whether of the character shown in Figs. 3 and 4 Fig. l or Fig'. 2 comprises top and bottom'marginal or selvage wires l0 and Il respectively,k and a plurality of intermediate line wires I2;` The number' oi the intermediate Wires I2' employed Will dependonwhat height fence is desired: The stay Wires are designated I3, andl theymay' bespaced apart six, nine or twelve inches as demand may Figs. 3y and` 4 are enlarged spot views of the ,25-

necessitate, or whatever spacing may be desired.

The marginal wires l0, both at the top and the bottom of the fence, where the terminal ends of the stay wires are connected therewith or thereto, are crimped, as at I4. The crimps in the top marginal or selvage wire are directed downwardly to the body of the marginal wire into which such divergent portions merge.

Each stay wire I3 where it intersects an intermediate line wire I 2 is twisted therewith* in a:

tension curve, as at I6 and their opposite or upper and lower ends are coiled or looped once'about a marginal wire, as at I 'I, and such coiled or looped ends are 'seated in the flattened portion of the crimps I 4', see Fig. 10,' and when so seated slight indentations I5a are formed in the stay wire to produce an interlocking effect between the stay wire andthe marginal or selvage wire. The criifnp's inthe marginal or selvage wires, constructed asthey are with seats and diverging outward portions actto prevent the individual single stay wires f romslipping` sidewise on the marginal or selvagewires and the attened faces of thecrimps in which the coiled terminal ends of the stay wires'are's'eated, together with the interlocking connection between the coiled ends of the stay wires and such seats, so formed,` prevent the marginal wires from leaving their position or turning on their axis.

In Fig. l the free ends of the stay wires are coiled or looped around their bodies, as at I8, see also Figs. 5 and 6, ,andl in Fig.l 2 I have shown the free termina'l'ends of the stay wires welded to their bodies, as at I9, see also Figs.,8 .and 9. Thelatter connection is adaptable for use when reasonably low carbon wire is used and the former connection'is' adaptable for use when highcarb'on wire is used. Y"The lstay wires,'in the form shown in Figs. 1,

3 V3, 4,15 and v6, immediately adjacent their coiled or looped ends 'around the marginal or selvage wires are preferably crimped or formed with reversebends 2li, whereby the bodiesof the stay wires,'between the marginal or selvage wires, are substantially in the same plane therewith. Also, in this ,form, theends of the stay wires are coiled tightly about their bodies and at the juncture of the crimps or' reverse bends 20, in their bodies, which lends additional securernent vof the stay wires andin'creases the load required to pull the stay vWires off the ,marginal or selvage wires.

' 'What I clainii's:4 v. Y, l. A wireience comprising marginal wires, intermediate line wires and spaced separate and individual continuous one piece stay wires connecting the opposite marginal wires and each of the intermediate lineV wires, each marginalv wire having correspondingly Aspaced crimps directed towardthe opposite marginal wire and body of thel fence 4and arranged to receive and seat the terminal ,end 4of an 'individual stay wire, and each stay wire having its terminal ends looped around Aa marginal` wire and seated withinI a crimped portion, and 4its lends connected withthe body of the lstay Wire, such ,crimps having portions diverging'from its seat and extending outwardlyV from adjacent a stay wire and merging into the marginal wire to coni-lne the stay wire from sidewise movement along the marginal Wire, and the body an off-set tension curve.

2, A wire fence comprising marginal wires, in-

termediate line wires and continuous one piece stay'wires connecting the marginalWiresand each"k of the intermediate line wires, each marginal wire Vhaving correspondingly spaced crimps directed toward the opposite marginal wire and body-of the fence and having the inner faces of the apex portion of, such crimps attened, and each stay` wire having its ends looped around a marginal wire and seated within a crimped portion and its ends connected with `the bodyr of the stay wire,

said crimped portions to provide an interlocking relation between such stay wires and said marginal wires, and` the body portions ofeach'stay wire' where they. intersect an intermediate line Wire. being twisted therewith in an off-set tension curve.` j 3. A wire fence comprising marginal wires, in-

termediate line wires and spaced separate and' verging from lits seat and extending outwardly from adjacent a stay wire and merging into'the marginal wire to confine thestay wire iromside-l wise movement along: the marginal wire, said stay wires having their body portions adjacentY the marginal wires crimped so that the bodies of the stay wires are in the same plane asthe marginal and line wires and having the freeends of .the

stay'wires coiled about their bodies at the juncturey of the crimp, and the-body portions of eachl stay wire where they intersect an intermediate line wire being twisted therewith in an oi-s'et tension curve.

"4. A'wire fence comprising marginal wires, intermediate line wires and continuous one piece stay wires connecting the marginal wires and each of the intermediate line wires, yeach marginal wire having correspondingly spaced crimps i and the looped portion of the stay wirebeing indented where it engages the flattened faces ofA l directed toward theopposite marginal wire and body of the fence and having the inner faces of the apex portion of' such crimps flattened,` and each stay wire having its ends looped once around a marginal wire and seated within a crimped portion and being` indented at such flattened faces' to provide anv interlocking relation between saidV looped portions and such crimps, said stay wires 1 y having their body portions adjacent the marginal wires crimped so that the bodies of the stay wires' are in the same plane vas the marginal and line Y' Wires and having the free ends of the stay wires f coiled about their bodies at the juncture of the crimp, and the body portions of each stay wire where theyvintersect an intermediate line wire bein-g twisted therewith in an off-set tension curve. 4 n 5. 'A Wire fence comprising marginal wires, in-

termediate line Wires and spaced separateand individual 'continuous one vpiec'e'stay wires conhaving correspondingly spaced crimps directed` necting the opposite marginal wiresv and. each of the intermediate line Wires, each marginal wire toward the opposite marginal'wire and body of the fence and arranged to yreceive and seat the terminal end of an individual stay wire, and each stay wire having its terminal ends looped once around a marginal 'wire and seated within a crimped portion and the free ends of the-stay wires Welded to their bodies immediately adja cent the marginal Wires, such crimps having portions diverging from itsfseat and extending outwardly from adjacent-a stay Wire and merging n into the marginal Wire to confine the stay wirefrom sidewise movement along the marginal wire, and the `body portion of each stay ywire Where they intersect an intermediate line wire being twisted therewith in an off-Set tension curve.

6. A Wire fence comprising line wires and stay wires, one or more of suchlines wires formed lthev strand wire.

vWire, the latter having its terminal end looped over the strand wire and seated in said crimp with crimps, one face of which is flattened, and

and the free end `ofthe terminal portion of the stay Wire welded to its own body in adjacence to the strand wire, said crimp in the strand Wire having portions diverging from its seat and eX- tending'loutwardly from adjacent the stay wire and merging into the strand wire to confine the stay wire from sidewisel movement along wrLuAM H. soli/nvnzm..v 2o 

